to socialize to drink and party and get high with them. That’s why they don’t like me. ‘Cause I don’t socialize like everybody else. If they knew how to talk to me and approach me, it might be different. Just cause one person… hey, hey but, see that boat, oh it’s gone, his name is D, now he’s the one that started this whole thing. He didn’t like me one day on this bridge. And so he started making everybody else not like me. So it was just a chain reaction.

Bushman: If you look back over that thing back over there (pointing) behind that thing right there. I used to sneak and watch them as they would come and go. Every time they would lock me up I would run right back. Run right back. It’s been a struggle, but they couldn’t break my spirit.

E: What’s the longest time you had to do in jail because of this?

Bushman: Oh, I’d say about a week. Maybe 30 days?

E: So, have you been cleared of everything, every time you’ve gone to court?

Bushman: Everything. I was just followin’ along with them, you know. You take a plea bargain, and then you is ok. So, then I just started going to jury

trial with everything and then I started beating it.

E: So, you’ve won every case?

Bushman: Every case. I haven’t lost one yet.

E: How many is that? How many have gone to jury?

Bushman: Five.

E: When was the last one?

Bushman: Last one, when he was in there. 2004. That’s when I won the 4 cases. 4 in a row.

E: When was the last time you had to go?

Bushman: I am challenging them all the time. They take me all the way up to the point where I am ready to go to jury trial then you know they end up dropping the case. It’s a harassment the way they just take me off the street. You got to sit in the courtroom. So I sit in the courtroom, from 9 o’clock ‘till 3 o’clock and then they let me go.

E: So, then it’s dark and you can’t go to work.

Bushman: Yeah, that’s what they caught their selves doing, but they just don’t know I can make a way.

E: What are your normal hours?

Bushman: I normally get here about 10:00 and the time I go home is when I feel like my pockets are full, I can tell by the weight of my pockets.

E: What would you say you take in on a good day?

Bushman: I’ll say you can do close to $60,000 a year if you work at it.

E: You’re doing pretty good. Do you have a house here or what are you doing with all of that money?

Bushman: I got six children and eight grandbabies.

E: That’s good, you’re answering the questions even before I ask them.